Is it me of the .mac homepage feature blow

Has anyone else tried to use the new .mac homepage. its basically for online photo albums. i had been considering moving my website there, but hells no i aint paing 100 bucks for crap. you cant do anything with it, its very non user friendly to boot. anyway, just my 2 cents.

Homepage is just for fast image gallery hosting, yes. But you can put whatever you want in your iDisk Sites folder - .mac gives you 100 MB of hosting, and you can write your own html pages, no problem.

I belive that .mac has it's place for some users, and its a good deal no doubt. And for other users, well they might just be better off using other services at for the current time being. While there still arn't that many mac viruses, wiht a unix based os(and a slightly growing market share) OS X is prime to be hit with a boat load of viruses, can't hurt to be protected. I do wish there was a monthly payment option, 8 bucks a month is easier to swallow when your a poor collage student then 99 smackers at one time.

i agree.. though i didn't use my .mac email account at all, and only sometimes used my idisk... i think that the total package is worth the money. however, i do think there should be the lower price/free email only thing.

ical isn't out yet right?

how does backup work? seems weird that you can only use it if you have a .mac account.... but anyhoo

I downloaded backup from my trial account, you can only use backup when it is connected to an itools account, i tried using it on a computer that wasn't connected to the net and it doesn't allow you to use the program.

JESUS you guys waste no time replying.
im not downing all of .mac and yes i believe it has its use for some people.
i was only talking about the homepage feature, and it sucks for homepage design, and i didnt know about the whole posting html through idisk.

Im wondering if its worth it for the space...because, I used tons of itools accounts (It is probably my fault that I made them see the errors of there free-web-space-giving ways) But I dunno if its worth it...It might be. I really liked the ease of putting stuff up on a site. Sometimes I can send files through AIM because of firewalls, and it was nice to quickly throw up movies or pictures

Originally posted by bunton
Oh by the way the New 17inch imacs dont shp with the mouse, that is 10 bucks a year extra because when you make your own windows pc or a dell you got to pick your mouse. [/B]

Originally posted by ptrauber You get Virex for LIFE with free updates with .Mac.

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Well this is ironic, isn't it... Remind me to quote you on that one again in five years when .Mac evolves into something else and they find some way to get out of it. I've got one word to say about that: Performas.

Slashdot.com has a got a good news item on .Mac vs .Net..
"Apple achieved in one stroke everything MS is trying to achieve with .NET, by announcing iCal [apple.com] and iSync"
"Microsoft spent two years talking about Web services and technologies, Apple quietly went about actually building them into a program its users will want to use. "

pnkfelix & cleo (or anyone else): I would consider staying with .Mac if I could use HTML in my homepage & have a bit more freedom in how I design my pages. I never knew you could do this, and you seem to know how. Can you go into a bit more detail on this subject? I thought you had to choose one of their cute page layouts and then insert things from your iDisk into the allowed spaces in their layouts. The thought of using HTML has me all excited! If you know of other discussion on this, feel free to give me the links.

Originally posted by Huskerflute pnkfelix & cleo (or anyone else): I would consider staying with .Mac if I could use HTML in my homepage & have a bit more freedom in how I design my pages. I never knew you could do this, and you seem to know how. Can you go into a bit more detail on this subject? I thought you had to choose one of their cute page layouts and then insert things from your iDisk into the allowed spaces in their layouts. The thought of using HTML has me all excited! If you know of other discussion on this, feel free to give me the links.

Thanks!

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It's simple, build your site then copy all the files into the "Sites" folder on your iDisk. That all there is to it.
Quick, simple and powerfull....hell, it's Apple in a nutshell

Well hell, I always wondered what I could do with that folder. *excuse me while I blush in embarrassment*

So, I'm assuming you can mix and match pages as well? (use some of Apple's layout pages and your own?)

Why doesn't Apple promote this about their homepage more in their advertising? Or do they, and I just haven't seen it? I bet if a lot more (dumb) people like myself knew about this, we wouldn't be so quick to complain about the new .Mac. Overall, I think Apple's advertising could improve, and that would help them a lot. They HAVE gotten better with that though in the past few months. LOTS better. Like you actually see an ad or two on TV now! There's a concept!

1. does not allow DNS. You can't have your domain (i.e., www.company.com) point to your .Mac page without a redirect which would end up at homepage.mac.com/etc. In that sense it is no better than geocities.

2. No FTP access to iDisk. I can't stand using Finder, and having it subsequently slow to a crawl, to access my storage area.

So in essense you're paying ~$8.30 a month for proprietary web hosting. I'd rather have them charge $10 a month for true web hosting, including a decent bandwith, scripts, secure access etc.

Okay, so the main reason I'm upset with Apple is it has made me have to choose between staying with them and believing they are still going to take good care of me, their mega-loyal user...or go to www.Powweb.com and buy my own domain name, get 250 free e-mail accounts (which would be great for my flute studio--each student could have their own e-mail through the site, etc.), much more freedom to do what I please with my site, FTP access, and everything Digidesign stated, and more. BUT...if I do that, then I risk giving up the chance to be part of all of Apple's intuitive ideas that WILL only be available for .Mac users. I will feel "out of the club". Apple is putting its loyal users to the test. It's easy to be loyal when it's free (or if you've got the money to spare). I've been struggling with the decision since .Mac came out. I feel like a little kid in a toy store trying to pick a toy. i've heard there is a thread out there that discusses powweb, but I can't find it to check it out. Anyone out there using powweb who can give me the pros/cons and tell me if it would be worth giving up .Mac for? How's the e-mail that comes with powweb? I wish I had the money, I'd keep .Mac for all of its perks AND buy my domain name from powweb. See what WOULD be cool is if Apple WOULD host your domain name. Now THAT would be worth the money!! (in a perfect world

I've already posted feedback to Apple and suggest that some of you do the same re: domain parking. I can't imagine that it would be that server-intensive, and I'd even pay a few extra bucks a year to have my domain parked to point to my Homepage site. Also, it would be nice if Apple offered PHP and MySQL... then I'd DEFINITELY move my site... but I don't imagine that that will happen any time soon.

Okay, so I've tried dumping my HTML into the "Sites" folder on my iDisk, and I get nothing. I can't find the stuff once I get into my homepages on my iDisk. Am I missing something here? I don't know what I'm doing obviously. Can someone give me "The Idiot's Guide" to putting HTML on your mac homepage? Verbose101: Help me out here...you make it sound so easy!

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